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Harapan #12: Pemimpin yang memberantas penjenayah

..Zahid had claimed that his predecessors had written similar letters when he broke his silence in January about writing a letter to FBI last December, in which he cleared Phua of involvement in a Hong Kong triak called 14K.

Phua, a high roller and a former Macao casino junket operator, is now standing trial in the US for a multimillion-dollar betting scheme.

In his December letter, not only did Zahid exonerate Phua from organised crime but said the Sarawakian had assisted the Putrajaya on “numerous occasions” in “projects affecting our national security and accordingly we continue to call upon him to assist us from time to time”.